MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 2005
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Sunday, June 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
President Lula top aides mentioned in bribes scandal
Private and government companies helped financed the “vote buying” in the Brazilian Congress revealed the Lower House representative who first talked about the explosive issue to the newspaper with the largest circulation in Brazil.
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Sunday, June 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Bielsa runs for Congress and leaves December
Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Rafael Bielsa will run as candidate for the Lower House of Congress for the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina's second most important electoral district.
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Saturday, June 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchner-Lagos analyze common energy project
Argentine president Nestor Kirchner and his Chilean counterpart Ricardo Lagos meeting in Patagonia promised to overcome bilateral “inconveniences” caused by the regional energy crisis and agreed to a common policy in global affairs.
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Saturday, June 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil ratifies orthodoxy in spite of political infighting
Brazil's Finance Minister Antonio Palocci said Friday in London there's no chance that the current administration of President Lula da Silva will abandon the current tight fiscal and monetary policies in spite of internal political disputes.
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Saturday, June 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
US trade figures suggest strong rebound
Trade figures released Friday by the United Stated Commerce Department suggest a strong rebound of the US economy with a 57 billion US dollars deficit in April showing record exports and imports.
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Saturday, June 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Extreme poverty hits 222 million Latinamericans
In spite of recent advances Latinamerica still has 222 million people living in extreme poverty of which 96 million are described as in indigent, according to the latest report from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latinamerica and the Caribbean released this week in Santiago.
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Saturday, June 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
FIFA World Youth Championships: US upset Argentina
The United States pulled off a major upset at the World Youth Championship, downing tournament favourites Argentina 1-0 in the opening Group D match. Chile crushed Honduras 7-0.
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Saturday, June 11th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
How Falkland islanders plan to help the world by keeping their landmines
Every day of the week Leon Marsh must drive down a track just the width of two Land Rovers, picking his way between the landmine fields that pepper his vast sheep farm in the Falkland Islands.
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Friday, June 10th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
IMF praises Uruguay and approves new stand by arrangement
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund today approved a 36-month, SDR 766.3 million (about 1.13 billion US dollars) Stand-By Arrangement for Uruguay, aimed at supporting the country's economic stabilization through mid-2008 and helping to foster sustainable growth while reducing vulnerabilities related to high public debt.
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Friday, June 10th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Bolivia: caretaker president and early elections.
The head of Bolivia's Supreme Court Eduardo Martinez was sworn in late Thursday as the country's new president with the almost only task of calling early elections that should help overcome the political turmoil which had Bolivia in the brink of civil war.
